Main image: Gym’ll fix it … Olivia Newton-John and friends get Physical. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock 20. Heaven 17 (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (1981) A nervy BBC banned the Human League splinter group’s funky debut single for pot...
On a neon-lit jetty overlooking the River Nile, a young Tanzanian DJ called Sisso is playing a bracing barrage of blips, bells and breakneck beats that could blast apart a heart-rate monitor. We are at Nyege Nyege, a pan-African festival in Uganda t...
A TV network in Japan has cancelled an appearance by the popular K-pop band BTS, after a photo emerged of one of its members wearing a T-shirt that appeared to celebrate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The seven-member boy band, who have built a hu...
Johnny Hallyday, the leather-trousered “French Elvis” who died last year, didn’t believe in resurrection. But from beyond the grave, the musician has managed to miraculously restore life to a dying record and CD industry. Almost a year after hundred...
South Korea has said it will send K-pop singers to perform in North Korea for the first time in more than a decade. More than 150 artists, including K-pop stars, are to visit Pyongyang from 31 March, Seoul said on Tuesday, in what will be a reciproc...